vSphere Client Installation fails with “Failed to install hcmon”

This was a rather annoying error. It seems to stem from having to support multiple different versions of vSphere and thus having many versions of the client installed along with VMware Remote Console (VMRC).

There are a couple of articles from VMware on how to try and resolve this:

I had tried the KB article hack to manually uninstall hcmon and rename the sys file without success, but the fix along with the logs led me to go dig in the common files folder.

So I took a chance and renamed “C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\VMware\USB” to “C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\VMware\USB.bad” and ran the vSphere client install and it worked!

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